 | Vegetables Every Day: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Cooking Today's Produce With over 350 Recipes by Jack Bishop
Buy new: $21.45 / Used from: $15.10 Lots of useful veggie recipes, not necessaily vegetarian though
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 | Thai Food by David Thompson
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $23.00 Perhaps too detailed and sophisticated for everyday cooking, but allows a nuanced understanding of the cuisine. Snobby. What does "insipid" taste like?
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 | Real Thai: The Best of Thailand's Regional Cooking by Nancie McDermott
Buy used from: $4.64 Much more useful for everyday Thai cooking, and inexpensive.
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 | Mexico One Plate At A Time by Rick Bayless
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $9.20 A very educational Mexican cookbook
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 | How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $4.13 An incredibly useful cookbook for basics on which to build
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 | Thailand: The Beautiful Cookbook by Panurat Poladitmontr
Buy new: $40.15 / Used from: $21.96 Very nice, and some nice recipes
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 | Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table by Mai Pham
Buy new: $20.90 / Used from: $7.99 Nice intro to Vietnamese food and flavors
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 | The Thrill of the Grill: Techniques, Recipes, & Down-Home Barbecue by Christopher Schlesinger
Buy new: $22.80 / Used from: $1.35 From the East Coast Grill, some good recipes and sides too
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 | License to Grill: Achieve Greatness At The Grill With 200 Sizzling Recipes by Christopher Schlesinger
Buy used from: $1.16 More from the East Coast Grill
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 | The Barbecue! Bible: Over 500 Recipes by Steven Raichlen
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.98 This book is more than barbecue, has nice intro into many international flavors from Caribbean to Indonesia, and sides too, a great intro
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 | How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques by Steven Raichlen
Buy new: $16.42 / Used from: $8.35 Not quite as good as the BBQ Bible, but lots of great ideas
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 | Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces: 150 Make-Your-Own Sauces, Marinades, Dry Rubs, Wet Rubs, Mops, and Salsas by Paul Kirk
Buy used from: $17.16 A GREAT book, lots of ideas, even for stuff away from the grill
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 | El Farol: Tapas and Spanish Cuisine by James Campbell Caruso
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $11.96 An outstanding Spanish and fusion cookbook, from an apparently amazing NM rest, lots of Tapas
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 | Not Afraid of Flavor: Recipes from Magnolia Grill by Ben Barker
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $1.95 A treasured establishment in NC and a highly recommended cookbook
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 | Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $7.99 Simply the standard for basics of Italian cooking
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 | Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $13.23 A tour de force Chinese cookbook, perhaps a little too specialized and authentic for most palettes, but incredibly educational
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 | Classic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $14.07 A classic guide to Indian cooking. Educational.
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 | The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition by Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $18.50 America's Test Kitchen, simply the most informative and educational cookbooks out there- this one is great.
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 | Baking Illustrated by Cook's Illustrated Magazine Editors
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $17.00 Massively useful for the baker in all of us
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 | Restaurant Favorites at Home: A Best Recipe Classic (The Best Recipe)
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $5.37 Informative on the differences between rest. cooking and home cooking, and useful way to approximate complex dishes.
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 | Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia by James Oseland
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $20.00 A well-reviewed introduction to cooking of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia- related but distinct cuisines.
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 | Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook: Recipes from Hunan Province by Fuchsia Dunlop
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $18.00 Don't have this one yet, but should be as good as her last one (a Sichuan cookbook)- this one covers Hunan cuisine.
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 | All About Braising: The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking by Molly Stevens
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $13.87 Almost every recipe here sounds amazing. Well thought of-
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 | Bistro Cooking at Home by Gordon Hamersley
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $10.95 Wonderful roast chicken and other nice recipes.
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